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7291638327AestheticismAestheticism (also the Aesthetic Movement) is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts0
7291639718Allegory1
7291640688Alliteration2
7297689156Allusion3
7297691711Ambiguity4
7297692306Anadiplosis5
7297693081Analogy6
7297693929Anapest7
7297693930Anaphora8
7297695925Anastrophe9
7297695926Antagonist10
7297697922Antanaclasis11
7297699116Anthimera12
7297699123Anti-hero13
7297702293Antimetabole14
7297704916Antistrophe15
7297708325Antithesis16
7297715670Aphorism17
7297716742Apostrophe18
7297716743Apposition19
7297733116Approximate/Slant Rhyme20
7297734213Aside21
7297734214Assonance22
7297735760Asyndeton23
7297735761Audience24
7297736556Balance25
7297738777Ballad26
7297739269Black Humor27
7297739978Blank Verse28
7297740598Blocking Agent29
7297742031Brachylogia30
7297742032Cacophony31
7297743234Caesura32
7297743235Carpe Diem33
7297744364Catalyst34
7297744365Catastrophe35
7297745704Catharsis36
7297746788Character37
7297746789Chiasmus38
7297747435Chorus39
7297747745Cinquain40
7297748460Climax41
7297749639Comedia d'ell arte42
7297751658Comedy of Manners43
7297751669Complication44
7297752887Conceit45
7297753369Concrete Poem46
7297753370Connotation47
7297754330Consonance48
7297754969Conventional Symbol49
7297754970Cosmic Irony50
7297757031Couplet51
7297757032Dactyl52
7297757520Dadaism53
7297757889Dark Romantics54
7297757890Dead Metaphor55
7297758932Denotation56
7297759456Denouement57
7297760094Deux ex Machina58
7297760582Dialect59
7297761966Dialogue60
7297761967Diction61
7297762733Dimeter62
7297762734Donnee63
7297763323Dramatic Irony64
7297764370Dramatic Monologue65
7297765084Dynamic Character66
7297765085Edwardian67
7297765722Elegy68
7297767531Elizabethan Age69
7297767532Ellipses70
7297768366End Rhyme71
7297769244End-stopping Line72
7297773912English/Shakespearian/Elizabethan sonnet73
7297774876Enjambment74
7297774877Envoy75
7297669979Zeugma76
7297671444Volta77
7297672791Villanelle78
7297673853Victorian Period79
7297674686Verbal Irony80
7297674687Verisimilitude81
7297675844Tropes82
7297675845Universal Symbol83
7297677272Trimeter84
7297677273Trochee85
7297677975Tone86
7297677976Transcendentalism87
7297679388Theme88
72976793893rd Person pov89
7297680406Tetrameter90
7297680407Theater in the Round91
7297682398Tercet92
7297682399Terza Rima93
7297683202Syntax94
7297683907Symbol95
7297683908Synecdoche96

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